PREFACE. 



Prom this culture of the trees too they may be planted with 

 ' die mod certain fuccefs, and without aily fenhble check to their 

 growth, during all the fummer inonths, without any additional 

 expence, further than two or three extraordinary waterings. 

 „This circumftance alone ought furely to be of much confidera- 

 tion in this climate, as our grounds in winter are ufually fo 

 much lock'd up with froft, flooded with rains, or the w^cather 

 otherways fo intemperate, that our common planting feafon is 

 confined to a fmall part of fpring and autumn. I fliould like- 

 wife imagine, that men of fortune, who fpend the winters in 

 town, could hardly be more agreeably entertained in the coun- 

 try, during the milder feafon, than in, as it were, creating (if I 

 may be allowed the phrafe) verdant groves, thickets, avenues, <^'c. 



Nor is this plan confined to deciduous trees only ; it extends 

 to many of the beft kinds of Evergreens, the greateft part of 



. which are now generally thought unfit for planting, after four, 

 five, or fix years old : But here certain rules are given for remo- 



. ving them with the fame fafety as the other kinds, to the height 

 ^of eight, ten, and twelve feet, according to their different fpecies. 



On the fame principles lifceways, and with the fame advanta- 

 ges, hedges of Thorns, and many other plants, may be remo- 

 ved, that will immediately refift cattle, fhelter the ground, and 

 fave the expence of ditches, palings, and other fences necefiTary 

 to protedl them when young. 



To which is added, Obfervations on the beji method of plant- 

 ing Hedges^ adapted to 'various foils and fttiiations. . Any improve- 

 ment made on this fubjecft is certainly of great.. and univerfal 



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